BalikBayan 1 Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI

As the ultimate enfant terrible of Philippine cinema avantgardist Kidlat Tahimik refuses to settle on anything whether its the telling of a colonial past or any version of this film which hes been making and revising for nearly four decades BalikBayan which means returnee in Filipino is partly about the homecoming of the historical figure Enrique of Malacca a Malay who Tahimik first played and brought to the screen in 1979 As the slave of the 16thcentury Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan he circumnavigated the Earth before returning home as a free man Old footage of Enrique played by the young Tahimik is mixed with the fictional story of a mysterious old man played by the presentday Tahimik and documentary footage of a contemporary artist community in Baguio in northern Philippines In this version Redux VI Tahimik continues his quest to reconsider the Philippines colonial legacy Shot on 16mm 19791980s and video 1990s2017